Journaling Through Anchors for the Soul: A Guide to Help Individuals Process Loss and Grief

A Guided Journaling Experience to Process Loss and Grief Through Writing

A resource for those who read Anchors for the Soul, this companion booklet helps individuals process their suffering through focused Scripture readings, meditation guidance, and journaling prompts. Author John Mark Hicks gives readers a step-by-step guide to help you keep moving, despite loss and grief.

Reading a book, hearing others’ stories, and even talking with others can help those who have suffered, but sometimes sufferers need more. This resource gives you space to go deeper into seeking healing for your heart—using God’s Word.

This is a “journaling experience,” not just a journal, because readers have an opportunity to experience change with each session by taking advantage of concise journaling sessions, one for each chapter from Anchors. Experience:

• • Specific Scripture readings
• • Personal reflection questions
• • Journaling prompts
• • Space to process
• • Action steps

As author John Mark Hicks has chronicled in Anchors, his experiences of suffering and his real-life encounters with sufferers have shaped this resource. The questions inside take into account readers’ sensitivities and pain.

Those who use this resource can walk away with a more personal encounter with the five anchors of the soul, a deeper understanding of relevant Scripture passages, and action steps toward engaging fellow sufferers.

Sufferers sometimes ignore or downplay their pain, but this guided experience offers a way for sufferers to process with fellow sufferers. Take Journaling Through Anchors for the Soul to heart: encounter God, grow through your grief, and move forward with hope.

John Mark Hicks has taught at institutions affiliated with Churches of Christ since 1982, including Harding School of Theology from 1991 to 2000 and Lipscomb University from 2000 to the present, where he is currently a Professor of Theology. He has authored or co-authored twelve books and contributed articles to several books and periodicals, both academic and popular. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Jennifer, and together they share five living children and two deceased. They also have six grandchildren.